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Settee (recto)

Maker

Juste-Nathan Boucher (artist)
1736-1782

Title

Settee (recto)

Date of Production

1700 - 1799

Medium

graphite, pen and grey ink, brown and grey wash (recto), graphite (verso) on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 18.9 cm
Width: 28.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3977

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords



fauteuils
settees


Provenance

Paul Prouté (Paris); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Neo-Classical Drawings, The Courtauld Gallery, London, November 1972-December 1972

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Collector's mark: Verso: lower right corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

Inscription: Verso: left centre, graphite: "b"; right centre, black chalk, partly erased: "Devant 42 pouces / Cote 92 pouces / galons pour lang[...] / frangens glands mag[...] //; lower right, graphite: "Boucher fts / Taa //". Mount (removed, in portfolio from P&D), Recto: lower right, graphite: “Boucher, fils.”; lower right, graphite: “Ovmt / #2 / 1200- //”.

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